Zaba Grace, Marla Sokoloff and Debra Arlyn (CD Baby is cool!)
Got this unexpected email from CDBaby.com suggesting Zaba Grace and Marla Sokolof. A long while ago I bought a bunch of CDs from them. They offer a lot of indie artists. Anyways, they got a couple cool new features, one is streaming previews and the other is unDRM'd MP3s. So I can check the songs …
Giving up on Gmail for calendar and contacts
I've come to realize that Gmail just isn't robust enough to be a dependable repository for calendar and contacts, at least for me. My realization of this comes after my project to divide up my work and personal contacts and calendar. I have always kept one calendar and one set of contacts, and it's always …
Gmail “conversations” drive me nuts!
Gmail's conversations and labels features drives me crazy and I'm sure a lot of folks don't truly understand what is going on. Basically, if you email your friend, they reply, you reply, etc. etc., Gmail handles ALL of the emails as one thing called a “conversation” which can be multiple related emails. You can see …
Buzz Out Loud podcast working now on my N95
Ever since CNet changed the BOL feed, my Nokia N95's podcast app would not handled it correctly. The episodes were in the wrong order and worst of all the newest one would not automatically download. I was manually having to remember to download it every day. I traced the problem to bad whitespace characters in …
Panasonic DVDLS855 portable DVD player kicks major butt!
Picked up this baby at CostCo for $170. Came with a nice case and even a headrest bracket so it can be mounted on the back of a front seat for people in the back. What is REALLY exciting about this unit is that it supports DIVX. I burned a bunch of DIVX (actually XVid) …
Pandora.com works on N800
Updated my Nokia N800 to the so-called Diablo firmware. Much snappier now and the browser is now Mozilla based instead of Opera. I've been waiting for some breakthrough that would allow me to listen to Pandora.com on the N800 and decided to try. Well, it's a little sluggish–Pandora is a very “heavy” Flash app apparently–but …
Interesting inside info on telemarketers…
I friend of my daughter's works at her Dad's telemarketing company selling newspaper subscriptions. I learned some very interesting things about how they operate: When the computer dials, it waits until you say something. At that point, a light goes on and they hear a tone. They often aren't paying attention and that's why there …
Shirt rotation
I think it's funny that a guy will wear a shirt simply because its come up in “rotation”, even if he is not that fond of it. Girls simply won't wear it. HAHAHA
Sync Firefox bookmarks and more between multiple computers
I’ve been trying out Google Browser Sync, a new Firefox add-in that will sync bookmarks, history, cookies, passwords and even tabs and windows among multiple computers. Basically, all you do is install the add-in on all the computers and enter your Google account information. I found that syncing the tabs and windows was a little …